Comments on: Ready or not: Ban hits campus

By: Megan

Megan — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:25:48 +0000

Ben Filas: “So this naive young person who has yet to step out into the great big world seems to think that she is helping to create a healthy environment. … She is following like a dazed lamb and helping to loose our grasp on the freedoms that our forefathers fought so valiantly to earn for us.”

Actually Hahn is an older lady who is the main supporter and contributer to the ban. She’s one of the main people on campus who started the ban.

By: Lucke Strike electronic cigarette

Lucke Strike electronic cigarette — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:26:22 +0000

Students are not dumb they will switch to e-cigarettes as they gain popularity

By: Kamanjah

Kamanjah — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:51:59 +0000

Wow, this is more than just a smoking ban, it is a complete ban on nicotine! And in Kentucky? Wow, pretty extreme. What’s next, a ban on caffeine?

By: Ben Filas

Ben Filas — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:57:23 +0000

“Hahn said the ban is about more than the right to use tobacco.

â€œIf weâ€™re truly an institution where we want to make othersâ€™ lives better and create a population thatâ€™s going to give back to Kentucky and be the next leaders of Kentucky, we need to go back to the reason why weâ€™re doing it â€” to create a healthy environment,â€ she said.”

So this naive young person who has yet to step out into the great big world seems to think that she is helping to create a healthy environment. Possibly, in a physical sense, but absolutely not in a societal sense!! She is following like a dazed lamb and helping to loose our grasp on the freedoms
that our forefathers fought so valiantly to earn for us. It’s a terrible shame that our society is forgetting that America was considered a “promised land” for so many because of the freedoms we allowed our citizens. Now, day by day, those freedoms are being taken away from us. We are no longer free to choose and free to act; instead, we are told how we must live. Shame on you!

By: dave

dave — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:29:14 +0000

All those that are expecting riots and protests and the heavy hand of the University to come crashing down keep dreaming. This ban as taken place and over time which the University has plenty of ( I’m out of here in two years) it wont even be a thought in your mind. The incoming freshmen will already be brain washed so the University only has to wait out a few years. As for staff you will have to make a choice between your job and you smokes.

By: JA

JA — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:16:08 +0000

As a non-smoker I still have to say this is about image more than health. Something isn’t quite right about it, I never got any second hand smoke from someone chewing tobacco, and if smoking areas were designated I would have enough intelligence to keep out of them if I didn’t want to breathe smoke. This ban is about image.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:13:16 +0000

You know, I am all for the ban but I think they should have left the cigarette butt receptacles until after finals and winter break. This is not going to be a one day, immediate change on campus. It will take time and people will still “sneak” their tobacco products on campus and use them, especially with finals coming up after the Thanksgiving break. The only difference is that now we will have increased litter or garbage bin fires. Also, I don’t see the point in reporting students to their deans for a personal health choice. If they desire to take on the consequences of smoking…that’s their personal business. They can also give fake names or student rival names. That method of dissuasion will not be effective.

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:03:48 +0000

WTF? The whole point of “electronic cigarettes” is that they don’t contain any tobacco! No smoke (first or second-hand), just flavored vapor that dissipates instantly. I’ve been using one for a week and my former 20+ year, pack-a-day Marloboro Red habit has been painlessly reduced to zero.

Do these people actually understand what it is they’ve just banned?

By: Treece

Treece — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:04:10 +0000

Smoking bans started so that nonsmokers wouldn’t have to be subjected to secondhand smoke. That’s not what’s going on here. This has nothing to do with health or science and everything to do with a moral crusade. The anti-tobacco extremists are on dead-set on the road to complete prohibition–and we all know how well prohibition works, right?

Just who do these people think they are? The arrogant paternalism is astounding. And it’s going to backfire.

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